ARCTIC BLAST (2010) *1/2 Not really a very good movie, even for this genre. I guess they alert viewers to the possibility that global warming my have unforeseen-and very grave and sudden-consequences, but I can't imagine that anyone willing to watch this would be able to do much about it. There's not much arctic about it, it pretty much takes place in Australia with a computer glaze over the pictures, so don't go in hoping to see any cute penguins. Instead it's a bunch of nondescript blondes, almost all wearing red and talking in the less appealing Aussie dialects. None of the actors draw you in, but John Andrews isn't terrible as the face of the almost well-meaning American pseudo-aristocrats, and Judith Baribeau does enough as his aide that I'd be willing to cast her in even one of the better '80s style evening soaps. It didn't make me mad that I watched it, but I can see how it would affect many that way. The most of us, though, I'd think, will just go back to things as if nothing happened, which is pretty much right. A sad commentary on a film threatening the immediate destruction of humanity, under the auspice pseudo-scientific circumstances.
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